8. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”

-Thomas Edison

9. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

-Les Brown

10. “I never dreamed of success, I worked for it.”

-Estee Lauder

11. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

-Oprah Winfrey

12. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

-Zig Ziglar

13. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

-Henry David Thoreau

14. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”